A security breech that crippled City of Washington computers is causing City Council to export their computers out of the city for increased security. Councilman Joe Manning explained that the cyber attack that occurred in May caused the city quite a bit of distress but measures before council will go a long way to prevent that from occurring again. Council paid $40,000 to Sylint Group, Inc. to regain control of their computers. Council would pay $15,000 in set up fees to Blue Bastion and Ideal Integrations to host and monitor their computer system. Once that is complete, an $8400 monthly charge to the city is anticipated to avoid any shutdown like the one experienced by the city back in May. Councilman Manning acknowledged the cost but explained that the city is actually playing catch up with security measures that exist and are not in place right now. Manning went out of his way to further explain that it took over 109,000 attempts by the hackers to gain access to the city’s computers anyway. The measures will be voted on at the next regular meeting on Thursday.